- Sin is not ended by multiplying words,
but the prudent hold their tongues. - Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
- “Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.” - For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
- For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
- Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin condemns any people. - I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
- But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed. - Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong. - But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die.
- Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.”
And you forgave the guilt of my sin. - The way of the Lord is a refuge for the blameless,
but it is the ruin of those who do evil. - This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
- Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
- Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,
but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die. - Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.
- I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you. - That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
- Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
- You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
- When I kept silent,
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long. - Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
- As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us. - Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 
